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Mignon Faget: A Life in Art and Design

September 22, 2010–January 2, 2011
Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street

During a career spanning more than 40 years, Mignon Faget has remained in the forefront of jewelry design in the South. The Collection celebrates her achievement with the exhibition Mignon Faget: A Life in Art and Design. (more…)

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Drawn to Life: Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams

January 11, 2011 – April 3, 2011
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street

In honor of the centennial of Tennessee Williams’ birth, The Historic New Orleans is partnering withThe Al Hirschfeld Foundation to mount Drawn to Life: Al Hirschfeld and Theater of Tennessee Williams. (more…)

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Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana

September 29, 2010–March 27, 2011
New Orleans Museum of Art • City Park

This fall The Historic New Orleans Collection and the New Orleans Museum of Art will unveil their eighth collaborative exhibition on the visual arts in Louisiana at NOMA.

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In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans

January 20–April 20, 2011
Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street

In 2011 The Historic New Orleans Collection, in collaboration with the Worcester Art Museum and Gibbes Museum of Art, will present to the public an exhibition on the life and works of Julien Hudson, the second earliest known portraitist of African heritage to have worked in the United States before the Civil War. The exhibition, titled In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans, will be the most thorough examination to date of Julien Hudson and his world. (more…)